One of the most heart-warming moments of the Haiti earthquake was when seven year old Kiki Joachin was pulled alive from the rubble and threw his arms into the air in a gesture of pure joy at being alive. We know that whilst
Kiki and his sister survived, they had to endure laying next to the corpse of their three year old brother Titite
for days.
Today although there is still some joy at
being alive, the family home was destroyed in the quake and
the family was living for a while outdoors on land near the
Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. Despite the world wide attention,
Kiki Joachin and his family have received no help and are
currently struggling for the basic necessities of life. Above a reminder of that
moment
The Haiti earthquake boy who stole the
world's hearts has now restarted school at Ecole
Renovation, near the southern town of Jacmel, after the
family left the capital of Haiti to live with relatives. Whilst not a keen student "I am not very good at school"
Kiki states that "I like maths and counting. I want to be a
mechanic and drive trucks. I want to see Haiti." His teacher Alexandra St-Fort reports "He
is slowly talking more, learning more. It will take a long
time - but just being in the class is a first step. He likes
playing with a toy truck and a kite he made himself from a
plastic bag."
Kiki Joachin, his immediate family and other
family members are now living in this shack following the
earthquake that destroyed their home. He has not
returned to the scene of where he was trapped following the
earthquake for so long.
It says enough about the rebuilding efforts in Haiti that,
at the time of writing,
the bodies of his dead siblings still remain in the
untouched rubble.
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